{"id":66040,"date":"2022-12-16T06:45:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66040"},"modified":"2022-12-17T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T00:51:15","slug":"whos-birthday-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=66040","title":{"rendered":"Whos Birthday Is It??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fact:\u00a0 Guinness World Records also records the world’s tallest snowman \u2014 or woman.\u00a0 <\/strong>Residents of Bethel, Maine, pitched in on the 122-ft, 1-inch tall creation which measures just a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (also a woman).\u00a0 Girl power!<\/em><\/p>\n

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We were having a little dinner party tonight to celebrate PAul being around for seventy-eight years, which meant the day was spent getting things ready!\u00a0 We moved dishes, set tables, thawed out goodies, made a market trip, etc.\u00a0 By the time it was 5:00 PM, we were pooped out.<\/p>\n

Did you know that birthdays are good for your health? It\u2019s a scientific fact: People who have more birthdays live longer.<\/p>\n

All day long, I was getting emails and texts, and video calls.\u00a0 Thank you to the New Hampshire continent. I talked to Colleen and Jackie and the great-grandkids!<\/p>\n

Just before everyone arrived, I tested out the new lighting system.\u00a0 We can make any of 64,000,000 colors, and we can program them to twinkle, chase, vary in intensity, etc.\u00a0 These lights stay up all year round!<\/p>\n

What did the bald man say when he got a comb for a birthday present? “Thanks \u2014 I’ll never part with it.”<\/p>\n

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Good for Christmas, St. Patrick’s Day, Arbor Day, ???<\/p><\/div>\n

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Suitable for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and Election Day!<\/p><\/div>\n

We had Bob and Donna, Vicky and Jim, Bad Mike and us… it was quite a party!!<\/p>\n

Visit the website and see all the activities!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Fortunately, our daughter Robin and husband Bob rescued us.\u00a0 Bob was the Perogie Chef for the evening and did a fantastic job!!!<\/p>\n

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Bob worked his magic!!<\/p><\/div>\n

We had four different types of perogies, and Donna searched for more spinach perogies; Bob found a couple for her!<\/p>\n

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Mike joined the crowd; an excellent addition!<\/p><\/div>\n

Vicky and Jim were ready for some singing, and we first used the iPhone, but we needed faster\/louder music, and Mr. Echo was selected!<\/p>\n

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NO, Vicky is not choking him… They are enjoying Michael Bubbles.<\/p><\/div>\n

We cannot explain what happened next, BUT the house broke out in song led by Mr. Echo, our Alexa device.\u00a0 Tennessee Ernie Ford would roll over in the grave if he heard this!<\/p>\n

After dinner, we did the Feuerzangenbowle (Fire Tong Punch) celebration and thought of Hans and Kerstin!<\/span><\/p>\n

Did You Know? Feuerzangenbowle is a traditional German alcoholic drink for which a rum-soaked sugarloaf is set on fire and drips into mulled wine. It is often part of a Christmas or New Year’s Eve tradition. The name translates literally as fire-tongs punch, \u201cBowle\u201d meaning \u201cpunch\u201d being borrowed from English.<\/div>\n
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We toasted everything, including ourselves!!<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>As we sang, we had birthday pie!\u00a0 We also used my mothers cake serving dish for birthdays; she used this at my second birthday so it is 76 years old<\/p>\n

I say to myself: \u00a0“You\u2019re not old. You\u2019re aged to perfection!”<\/p>\n

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Some wisecracker (Bob) read it from the back and wished me happy 87th birthday!<\/p><\/div>\n

I overheard someone say, “Somebody call the fire department \u2014 that cake is a fire hazard!”<\/p>\n

The combination of fruit pies and hot mulled wine made everyone break out in song!\u00a0 The police came to the door twice, wondering if we were slaughtering pigs.\u00a0 We did hear the neighbor’s window shatter!<\/p>\n

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We could not stop at just one song; we went on for almost an hour!\u00a0 Check out Bob waving in the background!\u00a0 \u00a0BTW, the dog ran out the door and hid his head in the bed; he was polite and did not howl!<\/p>\n

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We visited until 9:30 PM, and then everyone headed home.\u00a0 Mary and I blew out the candles and crashed!\u00a0 We were gone!<\/p>\n

Thank all of you who texted and emailed me; I appreciate the thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fact:\u00a0 Guinness World Records also records the world’s tallest snowman \u2014 or woman.\u00a0 Residents of Bethel, Maine, pitched in on the 122-ft, 1-inch tall creation which measures just a few feet shorter than the Statue of Liberty (also a woman).\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[229,5,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-family","category-friends","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66040"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66113,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66040\/revisions\/66113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}